I'm waffling between 4 and 5 stars on this one. Hawkins cooks up a great debut novel, one with some easily predicable elements and others that were obviously foreshadowed but not the immediate conclusion to come to. The second book in the series should be interesting, but I can't help feeling that in many ways, it reads just like any other boarding school story I've read, not just Harry Potter.

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